1. IN-SEAD on my mind

    It was in the summer of 2014 when I met an alumnus of INSEAD at a party. His personality, charisma and knowledge were contagious. Ever since I had started to think of an MBA, INSEAD has been at the back of my mind. But that day my aspirations for INSEAD were fuelled by a healthy push from him.

  2. The INSEAD Experience Before INSEAD

    Networking is one of the many keywords you start hearing when you decide you’re going to attend a business school. My formal introduction to networking happened during a visit in Oct ’15, to a friend studying for an MBA at Wharton. During the 36 hours I was with him, we spent 5 hours attending an EMEA network get-together, 16 hours trailing a hiking trek with the hiking club folks, 4 hours meeting the same hiking club to plan another trip to Venezuela, and 5 hours on a Wharton campus visit.

  3. # KEEP IT OPEN

    Welcome to the worldwide INSEAD community ! Yes, we made it. It has been a long journey. From sleepless GMAT preparations to nerve-wracking interviews, we, 17D, managed to survive. And, I think we deserve some proper celebrations.

  4. Where Did It All Begin?

    What are the classes going to be like? What kind of experience will it be to meet and make friends with people from so many different countries all over the world? Am I going to stay on top of everything? Questions like these are running through my head as the fact that INSEAD is only a couple of days away is sinking in. As that’s going on, I’d like to use this post to introduce myself and what led me to forgo my comfy life in the UK and to turn up instead in a small French town surrounded by forest from almost all sides.

  5. Are You My Alma Mater?

    Finding the right MBA programme is like finding the family that speaks your language. They may not look or talk like you, but you feel “at home” because they understand and value you. I knew that INSEAD was the only school that speaks my “language” i.e. could decode my resume and understand who I am.

  6. Why and How Did I Go ALL-IN-SEAD?

    Some experiences are life-changing. At times, such experiences can be nothing more than a mere interaction; and even more so, a mere conversation. Walking down my memory lane, I can root my decision of coming to INSEAD to one such conversation. It was June ’14 when I was a bit disappointed with not having been able to see a clear path for my career trajectory leading to general management after having worked with P&G for about six years.

  8. Why Not INSEAD!

    It was sometime around July 2015 when I once again decided to apply for MBA courses after a gap of almost three years. I had tried applying to a few schools in 2012 but it didn’t really work out because of two main reasons. First, I hardly had any idea of how to represent myself. Secondly, I hadn’t challenged myself enough at work to set me apart from the pool of engineers applying to business schools. Oh and thirdly, I didn’t know and still don’t know how objectively any application process works.

  10. The 89 percent

    Poll results from an INSEAD Class of December 2017 survey claim that 89% of my classmates are “career changers” which means that the vast majority of my classmates intend to move into a new function, industry, or country after we graduate from business school. Even if these results may be inflated, a large proportion of our class has indicated their desire to reinvent themselves from a career perspective. I am one of the 89% and here’s my story.